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13 Aug 2012

Angkor Wat Based Cambodian Temple in Bihar

The Minister for Culture and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that the Cambodian Government had raised the issue of the construction of a replica of Angkor Wat temple in Bihar, India, with the Indian Mission in Cambodia. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today she said, the promoters of the project in Bihar have given an assurance to the local authorities in Bihar that they would not construct the temple as a replica of Angkor Wat. The Embassy of India in Cambodia on 11 April, 2012 that the replica of Angkor Wat would not be constructed.